I installed the vSphere CLI 4.1 on the Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x32) and when I try to connect using vicfg-nas.pl it gives below error. W2K3 x32 bit is well supported according to the vSphere CLI document. I am not sure where it is going wrong then.

perl.exe - Unable to Locate Component

This application has failed to start because libxml2.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

The Perl installation is not in the Path environment variable. Add the following location to the Path environment variable:

I think the Perl installation is not in the Path environment variable.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\Perl\bin

- Right click My Computer- Select Properties from the context menu- Select the Advanced system settings- Click Environment Variables button- Select Path in the System Variables and click Edit- Add the following line ";C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\Perl\bin" to the Path variable

At my customer site the CLI install put a incorrect PATH variable in, but when you preview the dialog box the most recently added one was obviously the CLI folder so I skipped past that step. I had to look again and for whatever reason the installer gave it this path variable